On August 24, 1991, on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kremlin guards patrolled as usual, and when they passed by Akhromeyev's office, they found that the door was open, and when they opened the door, they saw that the marshal was quietly leaning against the window, with a rope wrapped around his neck, apparently dead for a long time, and five suicide notes neatly placed on the table.
His suicide is heart-wrenching, and some people do not understand, after all, every country will experience rise and fall, and the arrival of a new country is not necessarily a bad thing, why did he choose suicide because of the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Akhromeyev was a man and fighter of the Soviet Union, who had experienced the glory and disgrace of the Soviet Union, could not accept the reality of the decline of the Soviet Union, and only death could express his indignation.
Perhaps ordinary people cannot understand the mission of military personnel and their deep affection for the country, nor can they experience the grief of witnessing the disintegration of the country. So, why did the Soviet Union collapse?
What kind of struggle did Akhromeyev go through? What kind of message does the 5 suicide notes convey?
Akhromeyev, a young man born in 1923 in an ordinary Tambov family, joined the Red Army at the age of 17 and participated in World War II. In this war, he gradually rose from an ordinary soldier to a junior officer.
From the moment he joined the army, he never thought about living a comfortable life, and he never thought about finding a safe job, such as logistics, he only had the front line in mind.
Akhromeyev was an officer who knew he could command from safety, but he chose to be with his fighters at all times because he was convinced that it was the only way to gain everyone's respect and trust.
This belief drove him to join the United Communist Party, which had the highest death rate in 1942, and fought with 32 men in the Battle of Leningrad, only two of whom survived.
It was extremely cold weather, and the German army besieged it for 18 months, and Akhromeyev did not enter the room once to rest or warm himself. Day and night, he fought outside, starved and frozen, and although the war tormented him, it also made him.
Due to his incomparable bravery and perseverance, Akhromeyev rose through the ranks, rising from an ordinary soldier to a division commander. He always maintained a humble and learning attitude, and in 1952, he completed training in the mechanized troops, and in 1967 he successfully graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff, which laid a solid foundation for his later promotion.
Akhromeyev's rise through the ranks is amazing, with a chance to get promoted almost every five years. In 1975, at the age of 52, he was promoted to general and became a member of the High Command.
In 1979, Akhromeyev planned a military operation against Afghanistan, and finally on December 25 of the same year, the Soviet Union succeeded in occupying Afghanistan, leading to the collapse of the country's regime.
Akhromeyev was promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1983. Although his rank increased, his heart grew more and more anxious, as if a storm was coming.
However, this warrior who fought valiantly on the battlefield was not afraid, and he was ready for battle. When Akhromeyev witnessed the civil unrest, especially the anti-army movement launched by the "democrats" led by Yeltsin, he resolutely stated his position and openly criticized Yelinchin's actions.
Akhromeyev, a staunch believer in socialism, believed that socialism was achieved by the working people after 70 years of hard struggle, and could not be erased by a few words of Yelinchin's understatement.
He resolutely opposed what Yeltsin and others did, and said that he would not sit idly by. He could not understand or accept the insistence on negating everyone's hard work.
He felt deeply helpless that Hitler's army had failed to destroy the Soviet Union, and now because of the opinion of the rulers, he wanted to deny all the efforts of everyone. So, he united some military representatives and tried to stage a coup d'état on August 19, 1991, but it lasted only three days.
Seeing that the situation of the Soviet Union was irretrievable, he chose to commit suicide. On August 22, 1991, he committed suicide in his office, leaving behind five suicide notes.
General Akhromeyev's body was found in the early hours of 22 August with obvious rope strangulation marks on his neck, but there were no other injuries. He devoted his life to the motherland, and he believed that the destruction of the motherland would mean the end of his life.
In an unsigned suicide note, he wrote: "I can't go on, I've fought to the last moment of my life. Now the country is torn apart, social morality is degraded, and sooner or later someone in the USSR will be responsible. ”
In Akhromeyev's heart, the motherland is more important than everything, and family is always the second most important. For this, he was deeply sorry and left a letter to his family, encouraging them to support each other, live strongly, and not let others see jokes; There was also a letter for a friend, asking them to take care of his family and help bury his body.
The unsigned suicide note is fraught with the loss of the Soviet Union, and we have no way of knowing who Akhromeyev wants to leave behind.
1.In his suicide note, the marshal did not forget to pay off the meal money of 50 rubles, and in the last suicide note, he mocked himself for two failed attempts to commit suicide, and his wife kissed him on the forehead in grief, not realizing that he did not die on the battlefield, but among his own people.
The grave of Marshal Akhromeyev was dug up and the military medal was stolen, which reflected the chaos of the social order at that time. 2.When the Soviet Union collapsed on December 25, 1991, the red flag slowly fell from the Kremlin, ending the history of the world's first socialist state.
Now, more than 30 years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and many people are full of curiosity about this event. Why did the USSR collapse? And what does the USSR and China have to do with it?
Why do we call the USSR Big Brother? The full name of the Soviet Union is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which consists of 15 socialist republics with equal rights.
In the past, Tsarist Russia was divided into fifteen small countries, each with its own government. However, the establishment of the Soviet Union allowed these scattered sands to re-coalesce into a powerful "red empire", on an equal footing with the United States.
At its peak, the Soviet Union had one-sixth of the world's land and was rich in resources, and oil alone was enough to make it the dominant one in the 70s. The military strength is not inferior to the United States, the army is the first, the population is the third, the navy is the second, and the missiles and nuclear ** are enough to destroy the earth countless times.
Why, then, did such a powerful Soviet Union go for its collapse? Let's break it down one by one. On the one hand, the collapse of the Soviet Union stemmed from the outbreak of the economic crisis. Since the beginning of the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union has borne a heavy military burden.
In the 80s of the last century, the consequences of these economic expenditures became increasingly serious. In February 1991, the fiscal deficit had reached 300 billion rubles, inflation had reached an all-time high, and the Soviet economy was on the verge of being paralyzed.
To make matters worse, there was a shift in the thinking of the Soviets. Due to the economic downturn, people no longer believed in the past and began to oppose Marxism. Especially after Brezhnev came to power, a privileged stratum with him as the core was soon formed, and theft was serious, and even the phenomenon of appropriating state property for himself appeared, and the productive forces stagnated.
According to expert statistics, the number of privileged strata in the Soviet Union at that time was as high as five or six hundred thousand, and almost all the wealth of the Soviet Union was in the hands of these privileged people, and the wind of corruption was gradually eroding the Soviet Union.
Our army is made up of workers and peasants' children, we have no so-called privileges, we have to pay for our own food, we have to rent the houses we live in, everything we do is transparent. ”
However, when Gorbachev came to power, Akhromeyev was full of expectations, hoping that his reforms would bring about change. First of all, Gorbachev carried out a series of economic reforms, but he lacked determination, the reforms were not carried out thoroughly, and there was a lack of supporting measures.
He still followed the old heavy industry model, the economy did not recover effectively, and the people's living standards fell seriously. His reforms also touched the interests of the "privileged class" and caused strong resentment among them.
The decline in the standard of living of the masses of the people, the serious corruption of the bureaucracy, and the frequent collusion between the Soviet people caused the Soviet people to lose confidence and begin to doubt history and socialism.
In fact, the change in people's thinking did not happen overnight. As early as 1956, Khrushchev secretly criticized Stalin at the 20th Congress of the CPSU, and this statement caused an uproar and planted the seeds of suspicion, and many people began to deny history, deny Stalin, and even begin to doubt socialism.
After Gorbachev came to power in 1985, he criticized Stalin even more, and eventually evolved into an opposition to Marxist ideas. At the same time, he advocated democratization and pluralism, which allowed the anti-socialist ideology to flourish.
The Soviet Union was once a global superpower, so the older generation cherished that period very much and did not want to see the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the referendum, 764% were against the dismantling, especially the military.
They have gone through too many battles and won the victory, how can they disintegrate so easily? The coup d'état led by Akhromeyev is a strong example of this.
However, at that time, many Western countries intervened in the Soviet Union with ill intentions for political purposes. They incited the Soviet people to support Gorbachev's new ideas, which led to civil strife and ** within the Soviet Union, which eventually led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev also resigned. As the successor of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation was reborn after the collapse of the Soviet Union. A Russian leader once said that people should feel sorry for the collapse of the Soviet Union, otherwise they have no conscience.
But if someone wants to overthrow the current Russia and return to the USSR, it only means that he has no brains. This is enough to prove one thing, the Soviet Union embarked on the road to disintegration as an inevitable tendency.
Its development direction has deviated from the original track, the people take food as the sky, if the people can not even guarantee their basic life, how can they have confidence in the society?
What happened to those Union States after the collapse of the USSR? After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia inherited part of the inheritance, but because the Soviet Union was heavily indebted, Russia also fell into severe inflation, and the people's lives were miserable.
In the process of economic recovery, some factories that could not be operated had to be lowered at low prices**, which not only failed to solve Russia's financial problems, but instead led to a large amount of wealth in the hands of a few people, and a serious loss of national wealth.
It took decades of hard work for Russia to regain its influence in the world, but there is still a gap compared to the former Soviet Union. Ukraine is known as the breadbasket of Europe, with a well-developed industry and agriculture, but heavy industry still dominates.
Although Belarus covers an area of just over 200,000 square meters, it has a well-developed manufacturing and metallurgical industry, as well as agriculture and animal husbandry, and is currently at a medium level in the world. As an internationally recognized neutral country, Turkmenistan has the fifth largest natural gas reserves in the world, and natural gas is its main pillar industry, which is currently developing well.
Of course, there are also some countries that are not doing well, such as Kyrgyzstan, Tanjikistan, Uzbekistan and Moldova, which have relatively low per capita area and per capita income.
Why do we call the USSR "Big Brother"? Because during the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United States were neck and neck and were superpowers. And the nascent China has experienced wars, and many countries have chosen to isolate China.
However, the Soviet Union extended a helping hand, especially in the early days of China, and gave us great help. When China first became independent, many capitalist countries wanted us to collapse, but the Soviet Union's establishment of diplomatic relations with China the day after the founding ceremony was undoubtedly a strong support.
From the Marxist enlightenment of the October Revolution, the resistance to aggression in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, to the industrial construction after the founding of New China, the Soviet Union has paid manpower, material resources and technical equipment, and has personally brought China on the right track.
For these reasons, it is quite reasonable to call the USSR "Big Brother".
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, what was China's attitude to this incident? When the news of the collapse of the Soviet Union came, people felt very sorry, because the Soviet Union was once a powerful country that had always led us to the road of socialism.
Although the relations between the Soviet Union and China have always been complicated, we cannot deny that during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, the Soviet Union gave us tremendous support at the beginning of the founding of New China, and Sino-Soviet relations have always remained friendly.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, China was full of emotion, and although it could not change the facts, we, like the Soviet Union, were socialist countries. From the overall point of view, the collapse of the Soviet Union did not benefit our country, and the camp of the socialist countries lost such a pillar and lost the power to balance the United States.
On an emotional level, we are grateful for the help that the Soviet Union had given us, without which China's industrial start could have been delayed for a long time. The collapse of the Soviet Union is a thing of the past, and its collapse is a constant reminder of the challenges and pitfalls to be avoided.
It is said that the suicide of Akhromeyev was a real tragedy, because his death reflected the turmoil of that era. But it is undeniable that Akhromeyev was a real warrior, he did not sit idly by at the critical moment of the life and death of the country, he tried, tried, tried to save the USSR and solve the contradiction between faith and reality, but in the end it ended in failure.
When he learned that it was irreparable, all his disappointment condensed into despair, which eventually led to the great marshal strangling himself with hemp rope with his own hands. Those 5 suicide notes are his best annotations to his life.
Akhromeyev devoted his whole life to the ideas of Marxism-Leninism, and his patriotic feelings are worthy of study and deep reflection by each of us.